Whiskey-Soaked Dark Chocolate Bundt Cake

NYT Cooking: This recipe is a more sophisticated (and boozier) version of one found in Maida Heatter's "Book of Great Chocolate Desserts. The cake is rich, dense and very chocolaty, with a spicy, peppery, burnt caramel tang.

St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake

Legend has it that the St Louis gooey butter cake originated by accident in the when a baker mixed up the proportion of butter in one of his coffee cakes Rather than throw it out, he sold it by the square, and the sugary, sticky confection was a hit